WSJ House of the Week

10/29/2012 3:17PM

Stefanos Chen on Lunch Break shows us the four newest properties to compete for the title of WSJ House of the Week, including a Connecticut island, a 1950s home in Los Angeles, a nearly 90-acre property in Vermont and a huge home overlooking Portland, Ore.

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... I ... Armenta segment today it is time to tell you one house of the week you voted you decide or take the winners in just a moment personally wanted Bring and ... Stefanos Chen he does this all the time for us and he has the list of the four homes to choose from ... the stern Connecticut's toughness ... a year ago so we have ... will ... it ... be that exists ... we can get ... it said he had bigger and in the North Island chain ... that I was really cool that is that actually has an underground utility system so that it's it's ... available for year round use ... unit on the part of daily commute is taking a boat to get to train every morning ... so that as of ... the cake ... it's that time nineteen hundred style tutor on it ... guesthouse ... and out ... basically it even customize the home and renovated a couple of additional features ... and Dom ... in its year-end analyst is well on a property ... that they have an up all on the islands was that if there was enough water all around you you also have a pool on the island ... and usually that that is up with was a very ... difficult construction process to sneak in that space there and as a candidate city to live with the ordinances that to you that ... know my fat on the market for ... just under thirty eight oh one and twelve point nine nine are I will be thinking about that and hoping it withstand the forces of Hurricane Sandy ... lesson about to Los Angeles tells about this ... magical box ... is that the owners words insisting on a present that way because it was though by ... the ... famous student ... loan rates on daughter ... who is an architect in California ... I was really cool but it is that these new James Bond kind of features there's not a part of the house actually squeezed out of the houses that make sense ... it isn't a seating area ... where you can push a button and it will rotate ninety degrees so that you the living room is actually facing out onto downtown L A Lao ... that's not cool enough there's also an indoor outdoor report is that with this land or ... you can actually ... with about nine feet ... inside the house dive underneath the pool from the inside and scrapped yes ... that is a tough one to top it seemed like a role to steal compared to some the other ones how much ... this was going for ... it really just under three No and I am keeping them on the back of my habits move back to the east coast Vermont what's happening than ... here we have ... a horse property in from ... its ... ninety acres and with stock throughout ... the course true ... use in our time and is a nineteenth century house in the property is also aren't ... the owners of moments from them ... are you going I thought that the state ... it's now two story master bedroom with this kind of helix shape the staircase that goes up and overlooks the mountains ... it has ... made clients in the morning you push a button and the entire and still play ... that it's any of the Appalachian Trail so you have not been using it to ride horses and it's it's pretty early areas for five point five nine near the Appalachian Trail well to two houses now I'm having quite a bit I let's move on ... to Portland Oregon ... actually with the owner told me that he billed it as a content for it ... says that because that that style home for a floor to ceiling windows sch and is ... perched on a hill in the Portland overlooking the city to reason that ... you know basically she was taught us to go on to to maximize the use of budget rooms at the store ceiling windows so it's basically a plan last month so I it's ... a it's a ... three storey property with a cool features and outs of the property is that this is one times ... marble stone ... it is giant ball that day is that lifted by this this water feature wrote it so that it continues to drive today ... so that it's up as one of their different east of the big ball house in the air with ... all ... it's a pretty young when so and those views were outstanding three point seven five nine step as I don't know what did because actually while all four of these houses and have to worsen over time and space to make a guess I never never the winner as ... I know I like that thing we can swim from the inside to the House side so I would think the Los Angeles house who was the winner ... it's the it's the ... get ... the private island in Connecticut right there looking and again you get a private island get water all around you you get more water on the island in the form of Opel ... you all voted you decided twelve point nine million and that was the most expensive property ... for sale ... our house of the week ... this week seven cent think semester being with us ... sure